Each life is a mystery that is never finally available to the mind’s light or questions. That we are here is a huge affirmation; somehow life needed us and wanted us to be. To sense and trust this primeval acceptance can open a vast spring of trust within the heart. It can free us into a natural courage which casts out fear and opens up our lives to become voyages of discovery, creativity and compassion.*
John O’Donohue

Harmony has been described as a second naïveté, a second simplicity or innocence, where instead of seeing through everything, we see into everything, and at the core, we find not meaninglessness and banality but profound, inexpressible belatedness and beauty.**
Brian McLaren

In this infinite game of life there are no imposters –
Life wanted each unrepeatable one of us here.

Of course, we are beholden not to choose
some way or manufacture a role that cuts across the direction of our lives.

I’m not thinking about fate or destiny, but about
knowing ourselves and choosing to make our contribution.

What matters most isn’t the title. It isn’t the power. It isn’t the wealth. It isn’t the control. It’s who you choose to become. Or who you choose to remain.^

When we are prepared to look inside, we find
more than we had thought or hoped we would.

Yes, there’s the ugly stuff, the failures, the weakness, but
there’s also the love and beauty expressed in discovery, creativity and compassion.

Most of all, I am reminded how this is the possibility of
looking with astonishment in to the lives of one another.

*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus;
**Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt;
^Ryan Holiday’s Discipline is Destiny.